diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 60d3b535c..986382a4e 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -110,10 +110,6 @@ configurations.all {
         force 'com.google.guava:guava:30.0-jre'
         force 'com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle:8.29'
         force 'commons-codec:commons-codec:1.13'
-        force 'org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.5.13'
-        force 'org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient-osgi:4.5.13'
-        force 'org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5:5.0.3'
-        force 'org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5-osgi:5.0.3'
         force "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:${versions.jackson_databind}"
         force "org.yaml:snakeyaml:${versions.snakeyaml}"
         force 'org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils:3.0.24'
@@ -212,8 +208,8 @@ dependencies {
     implementation "org.opensearch:common-utils:${common_utils_version}"
     implementation "com.github.seancfoley:ipaddress:5.3.3"
     implementation "commons-codec:commons-codec:${versions.commonscodec}"
-    implementation "org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.5.13"
-    implementation "org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:4.4.15"
+    implementation "org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:${versions.httpclient}"
+    implementation "org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:${versions.httpcore}"
 
     testImplementation "org.opensearch.test:framework:${opensearch_version}"
     testImplementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-test:${kotlin_version}"